Re: Enabling Extension:ConfirmAccount
Hi,
On 07/03/2012 11:32 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> If that's the case, I'd like to suggest enabling the
> ConfirmAccount extension
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount - which can
> be configured to ask users for a username & email address, and
> their bio/reasons for wanting to have an account. The request is
> then added to a moderation queue, and anyone who is in the
> Bureaucrat role can approve the account creation request.
<snip>
I'm not sure the current system fits in with your description,
though
- - there is a moment where it could be public or private. Under the
current system, the best place to ask for a wiki account is IRC or the
arch@ mailing list, since you'll get a fast response and it's quite
public.
You also need to know that asking in the IRC channel or on arch@ is the
suggested path to follow (not mentioned in the page I saw). It just said
"ask somene" for me.
I presume the ConfirmAccount has a public queue that only
Bureaucrat's
can resolve?
I believe that's how it works.
That makes it public, but now we have a greater restriction on who
can
confirm accounts. Right now, anyone with an account can confirm, but
under ConfirmAccount we'll have to designate and cultivate
Bureaucrats, yes?
One way we could handle that and spread the policing load would be to
create a different role (Moderator, say) and add everyone to that by
default, and modify the extension to check that role rather than
Bureaucrats for authorisations. This looks like a config option for
ConfirmAccount:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ConfirmAccount...
(line 106-110).
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Neary
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